When I showed up to practice with them, my teammates roasted me - they called me “Dorothy,” like the Wizard of Oz. I pre-ordered them off Eastbay like 3-4 months in advance, thinking that they were going to sell out. It was the first shoe I ever bought with my own money, and at $125, it was a lot back then. I was working as a lifeguard in the summer at the time, and saved up to buy a red pair. J-Will played in a purple pair, a silver pair, and an all black pair, but my high school basketball uniforms were red. Purple is my favorite color as well, and although sneakers dropping in really wild colors is commonplace nowadays it wasn’t as much so when the Hyperflight debuted back in 2001.
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Growing up in Sacramento, that was our only pro sports team. You grew up in Sacramento - I’m assuming that you were a big Kings fan and introduced to the shoe by Jason Williams?Ībsolutely. Let’s talk about another one of your favorites: the Zoom Hyperflight. I think that was my first real step down the path of collecting. Once I got to college, I got a debit card just to link it to my eBay account and buy a pair of Zoom Flights. That Thrill Flight was honestly a really solid shoe, but the Air Zoom Flight 95 was this aspirational thing for me that I always wanted to get my hands on. Instead, I wound up getting the Air Thrill Flight at JCPenny for $58, and had to chip in $18 from my childhood chores. I wanted them more than anything, but they were $110, more than twice my budget. Jason Kidd was playing for the Dallas Mavericks at the time and wearing them every game. The second I saw that black colorway with the carbon fiber, I knew there was nothing like it out there. The Air Zoom Flight 95 was the first shoe that really did it for me. So that firm budget made you desire those “really good” sneakers more than you would’ve if you could have had whatever kind of shoe you wanted?
I had a $40 shoe budget in middle school and a $50 shoe budget in high school so I had to get real resourceful, whether that was combing through Marshalls and Ross trying to find stuff or digging into Eastbay and Final Score catalogues. I didn’t have all the “best” sneakers growing up, and always joke with my mom that my whole obsession with sneakers might have ended if she’d bought me a pair of Air Penny 2s as a 6th grader. Naturally, you gravitate to looking at what they’re wearing on the court, like the rubber band KG wore on his wrist, Jason Kidd’s armband and, of course, everyone’s sneakers.
I was really inspired by guys like Penny Hardaway, Jason Kidd, Jason Williams and Kevin Garnett. Nick DePaula: My love of sneakers grew from playing basketball as a kid.
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